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FRICATIVE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
FRICATIVE. In PHONETICS , a vocal sound made by bringing...passive upper front teeth, and is a labiodental fricative CONSONANT . The /f/ and /v/ in five are the same kind of fricative; the first voiceless, the second voiced. Compare...
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G
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...for both a voiced and voiceless velar fricative. By the close of the Middle Ages, yogh...have kept the voiced palato-alveolar fricative value /3/, as in bourgeois this may...commonly a relic of a velar or palatal fricative that is preserved as a velar fricative...
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SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...a voiceless vowel in that there is no fricative-like narrowing in the mouth, so that...through the gap, the resulting sound is a FRICATIVE /v/. In the case of an APPROXIMANT...compared to the /z/ of zinc (a voiced fricative). When a stop is released, the articulators...
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H
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...English, h represents a voiceless glottal fricative at the beginning of syllables before...but in ScoE and often in IrE is a velar fricative /x/. English in England may have silent...represent the Old English palatal or velar fricative previously often spelt 3 ( YOGH ), itself...
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APPROXIMANT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...articulation more open than a stop or fricative, as in the /r/ of rink compared with...devoiced after a voiceless stop or a fricative (/r/ after /t/ as in trinket...devoicing produces noise similar to that of a fricative. The set of approximants includes LIQUIDS...
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CONSONANT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Affricate tʃ,dʒ Fricative f, v ɵ, þ s...the other sounds because it is a FRICATIVE formed in the glottis. The grid shows that only obstruents ( STOP and fricative consonants) enter into the voiced...
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WELSH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...is augmented from Welsh by the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative ɬ (spelt ll as in Llangollen ), the voiceless alveolar...x325;/ (spelt rh as in Rhyl ), and the voiceless velar fricative /x/ (spelt ch as in Pentyrch ). (10) In many parts of...
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SCOTTISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...usage is the alveolar tap in some phonetic environments and a fricative or frictionless continuant in others. There is a minority...English. (7) ScoE retains from Scots the voiceless velar fricative /x/: for example, in such names as Brechin and MacLachlan...
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T
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in English, the alveolar stop. The diagraph th represents the characteristic English interdental fricative, voiced in this, voiceless in thing. For modern misapprehensions concerning older signs for the fricative, see the letter Y .
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SCOUSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...7) In syllable-initial and syllable-final positions, a fricative can follow a stop, as in ‘k/x/ing’ for king (where /x/ represents the fricative in ScoE loch ), ‘me d/z/ad’ for my...
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